34 UPTON, MAINE 1872 June 2 - 14 weeks before the lake was frozen over and snow on the ground. These twenty-three species with those observed last season make the list up to one hundred and nine: This includes only those actually observed or received from the statements of a number of reliable persons: with the exception of a few of the Raptors and two or three ducks it probably includes nearly all the birds breeding here. A few weeks work in early May and in the autumn and winter would undoubtedly add many migrants and might bring to light important discoveries. Vireo Philadelphi- cus, for instance, I am convinced would occur in comparative abundance a little earlier and rare stragglers from the South and West might be expected as there is undoubtedly some route from the West by which many species come without passing through Massachusetts. June 15. Rose at 4 and started on our stage ride down to B. with Llewellyn Moody for driver and enjoyed the drive much. Heard numbers of E. trailli, Cont.borealis and G.philadelphia and I shot one of the latter: saw also two large Buteos sitting on trees near the roadside and heard two Myiarchus crinitus. Got to B. by 11 and into Boston by 8 P.M. Had our birds packed in one of the trunks and found them in rather a flattened con- dition when we got home.